People, mostly
Muslim who speak the
Albanian language but may be living in other countries than
Albania especially,
Macedonia, the province of
Kosovo and other
former Yugoslavian republics in the
Balkans.
The Ethnic Albanians are one of many groups (such as
Serbs,
Croats and
Bosnian Muslims) that found a
united Yugoslavia unworkable after
World War II and proceeded to attack and be attacked by each other leading to the
fragmentation,
terrorism,
ethnic cleansing and
war in this area of the world.